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Here are a few stories about sites/services being shutdown...I expect the real deuluge won't happen until after it takes effect. StreetLend.com - https://news.

Here are a few stories about sites/services being shutdown...I expect the real deuluge won't happen until after it takes effect. StreetLend.com - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16954306 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16954306 Super Monday Night Combat - https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/28/17295498/super-monday-night-combat-shutting-down-gdpr https://www.polygon.com/2018/4/28/17295498/super-monday-nigh... Tunngle - https://www.tunngle.net/en/ https://www.tunngle.net/en/ Ragnarok Online - http://massivelyop.com/2018/04/26/ragnarok-online-shuts-down-in-europe-due-to-new-regulations/ http://massivelyop.com/2018/04/26/ragnarok-online-shuts-down... Verve - https://adexchanger.com/mobile/verve-closes-european-business-thanks-to-gdpr/ https://adexchanger.com/mobile/verve-closes-european-busines... SteamSpy - https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/8bdkuz/steam_sales_tracker_steamspy_will_no_longer_be/ https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/8bdkuz/steam_sale...

guitarbill 9y ago
SteamSpy is disingenuous in that yes, they can't scrape people's Steam profiles anymore because they're now private by default. That change could have come at any time, and in fact you've always been able to make profiles private [0], but probably the default is a result of the GDPR. This is more of a result of their shaky business model than the GDPR. And nothing in the GDPR is preventing Steam from publishing anonymized game stats via an official API, or for people to make their profiles public again, or SteamSpy collecting this data with consent some other way. [0] https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4113-YUDH-6401 https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=4113-YUD...